Frank Sinatra presents an Oscar to Jack Albertson at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Music Center in Los Angeles, Ca., April 14, 1969. Albertson was named best supporting actor for his role in the movie "The Subject Was Roses." (AP Photo)

George Kennedy poses April 10,1968 with his Oscar in Santa Monica, Calif, after he was presented with it as best supporting actor. He won the award for his role in the film "Cool Hand Luke." It was his first Oscar. (AP Photo)

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Rod Steiger, the gruff southern sheriff of "In the Heat of the Night," displays the Oscar he won for the role in Santa Monica, Calif., April 11, 1968 at the Academy Awards. (AP Photo)

French actress-dancer Leslie Caron presents the Oscar to director Mike Nichols backstage at the 1967 Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca., on April 10, 1968. Nichols won best director for his movie" The Graduate." (AP Photo)

British actress Wendy Hiller accepts the Oscar on behalf of Paul Scofield as Julie Christie stands by at the annual Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Ca., April 10, 1967. Christie, British actress who won last year, presented the best actor award. (AP Photo)

Walter Matthau accepts his Oscar from presenter Shelley Winters on stage during the Academy Awards ceremony at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca., April 10, 1967. Matthau won best supporting actor for his role in "The Fortune Cookie." Matthau's arm is in a cast from an injury in a bicycle accident. (AP Photo)

Bob Hope welcomes actress Patricia Neal to the stage at the 39th Academy Awards April 10, 1967 as she prepares to act as presenter of the Oscar for the best foreign language film of the year. The audience stood as she arrived on the stage. She won an Oscar two years ago, but since sustained a nearly fatal stroke. (AP Photo)

Martin Balsam looks at his Oscar as he poses with actress Lila Kedrova, who presented the statuette, at the Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca., April 18, 1966. Balsam won best supporting actor for his role in "A Thousand Clowns." (AP Photo)

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Actress Shelley Winters, left, is shown with Oscar presenter Peter Ustinov at the Annual Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Ca., April 18, 1966. Winters won best supporting actress for her role in "A Patch of Blue." (AP Photo)

Julie Andrews hugs the Oscar that she won for best performance by an actress for her role in "Mary Poppins" at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 6, 1965. (AP Photo)

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Julie Andrews, holding her Oscar statuette, poses with Audrey Hepburn backstage at the 37th annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, Ca., April 5, 1965. Andrews won for her role as Mary Poppins in "Mary Poppins." Standing at far right is actor Sidney Poitier. (AP Photo)

Actor Karl Malden, right, gives a congratulatory kiss to Oscar winner Lila Kedrova after presenting her with the best supporting actress award for her role in "Zorba the Greek" at the annual Academy Awards ceremony in Santa Monica, Ca., April 5, 1965. (AP Photo)

Oscar winners from "My Fair Lady," from left, Jack Warner, Rex Harrison and George Cukor pose with Audrey Hepburn at the Academy Awards presentations in Santa Monica, Ca., April 5, 1965. Producer Warner won the award for best picture of the year; Harrison won best actor; and Cukor won best direction. (AP Photo)

Actor Sidney Poitier is photographed with his Oscar statuette at the 36th Annual Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. on April 13, 1964. He won Best Actor for his role in "Lillies of the Field." (AP Photo)

Sidney Poitier, who won an Oscar as best actor of the year, and French actress Annabella, who accepted the best actress award won by Patricia Neal, pose at ceremonies held at Santa Monica, Calif. April 13, 1964. Joining the winners on the sides are presenters, Gregory Peck and Anne Bancroft. (AP Photo)

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Actress Julie Andrews poses with Italian film director Federico Fellini after presenting him with his Oscar at the 1963 Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, Ca., April 13, 1964. Fellini won best foreign-language picture Oscar for his movie "8 1/2." (AP Photo)

Gregory Peck indicates his one Oscar after winning his first, after five nominations, as he poses with actress Sophia Loren at the Academy Awards at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, Ca., April 8, 1963. Peck won best actor for "To Kill a Mockingbird." (AP Photo)

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Gregory Peck, holding pocket watch, jokes with, from left, Patty Duke, Joan Crawford and Ed Begley backstage at the Academy Awards at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, Ca., April 8, 1963. Peck won best actor for "To Kill a Mockingbird"; Duke won best supporting actress for "The Miracle Worker"; Crawford accepted the Oscar for Anne Bancroft, who won best actress for "The Miracle Worker"; and Begley won best supporting actor for "Sweet Bird of Youth." (AP Photo)

Left to right: Abby Mann, who won Oscar for best screenplay from another medium "Judgment at Nuremberg"; Lee Remick; William Inge, who won Oscar for best screenplay written directly for the screen; for "Splendor in the Grass"; and Jack Lemmon on April 9, 1962 in Santa Monica, California. Woman second from left is unidentified. (AP Photo)

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Oscar winner Ed Begley poses with presenter and actress Rita Moreno, wearing a sari, at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Ca., April 8, 1963. Begley won best supporting actor for his role in "Sweet Bird of Youth." (AP Photo)

Oscar winners for "The West Side Story," George Chakiris, left, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise and Rita Moreno, pose at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica on April 9, 1962. Chakiris won best supporting actor; Robbins won best director; Wise won as co-director with Robbins and as producer of best picture; and Moreno won best supporting actress. (AP Photo)

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Choreographer Jerome Robbins holds his Oscar award for best direction of "West Side Story" with Gene Kelly in this April 9, 1962 photo. (AP Photo)

Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope, center, poses with four Oscar winners after the Academy Awards ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif. on April 18, 1961. Photographed with Hope are, from left to right, British actor Peter Ustinov, best supporting actor for his role in "Spartacus"; Shirley Jones, best supporting actress for her role in "Elmer Gantry"; Elizabeth Taylor, best actress for her role in "Butterfield 8"; and Burt Lancaster, best actor for his role in "Elmer Gantry." (AP Photo/stf)

Oscar winners Peter Ustinov, left, and actress Shirley Jones pose at the Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca., on April 17, 1961. Ustinov won best supporting actor for "Spartacus," and Jones won best supporting actress for "Elmer Gantry." (AP Photo)

Actress Annette Funicello, right, and former child film star Shirley Temple, left, are seen holding a miniature Oscar statuette at the annual Academy Awards presentations, in Los Angeles, Calif., in April 1961. (AP Photo/Brich)

Actress Shelley Winters accepts her Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in "The Diary of Anne Frank" at the Academy Awards at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, Ca., April 4, 1960. Standing at left is presenter Edmond O'Brien. (AP Photo)

Charlton Heston poses with his Oscar statuette at the 32nd Annual Academy Awards held at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, Ca. on April 4, 1960. Heston won best actor for his performance in "Ben Hur." (AP Photo)

French actor and director Jacques Tati accepts his Oscar for best foreign language picture, awarded to him for the film "Mon Oncle" (My Uncle) in Hollywood, Calif., on April 1, 1959. The presenters are actor Robert Stack and dancer Cyd Charisse. (AP Photo)

The Oscar won by Jacques Tati, French actor-director, at the Academy Awards show in Hollywood April 6, 1959 is the object of admiration by actress Sophia Loren and actor Dean Martin. Tati was given the Oscar for his film "My Uncle,; which was judged the best foreign language movie of the year. (AP Photo)

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Three of the four top Oscar winners at Hollywood's annual Academy awards presentations, held their golden statuettes after the, April 6, 1959 show. Left to right: Ballad singer Burl Ives, best supporting actor for "The Big Country," Susan Hayward, best actress of the year for "I Want to Live," and David Niven, top actor for his part in "Separate Tables." Wendy Hiller, veteran British actress who won an Oscar for best supporting role in "Separate Tables," was in England. (AP Photo)

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Producer Arthur Freed thanks the motion picture Academy for naming his film "Gigi" the best of the year at the 1958 Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., April 6, 1959. Oscar presenter and actress Ingrid Bergman is at left. (AP Photo)

Musicians Jimmy Van Heusen, left, and Sammy Cahn, right, hold their Oscar awards at the 30th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 26, 1958. They won for writing the best song "All The Way" from the movie "The Joker is Wild." Actor Maurice Chevalier is at center. (AP Photo)

Oscar-winning actress Joanne Woodward poses with her husband, actor Paul Newman, backstage at the 30th Academy Award presentations in Hollywood, Calif., March 26, 1958. Woodward won best actress for her role in the motion picture "The Three Faces of Eve." (AP Photo)

Presenter Cary Grant and Jean Simmons hold the Oscar awarded to Alec Guinness for his performance in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" at the 30th Academy Awards ceremony on March 26, 1958. (AP Photo/stf)

David Lean, British director of "The Bridge on the River Kwai," holds the Motion Picture Academy Oscar for best director of 1957 presented to him by Italian actress Sophia Loren in Hollywood, Ca., March 26, 1958. (AP Photo)

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Oscar winner Anthony Quinn poses at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Ca., March 27, 1957. Quinn won best supporting actor for his role in "Lust for Life." (AP Photo)

Cary Grant hands British actress Jean Simmons the Oscar which she is accepting on behalf of Alec Guinness, on March 26,1958 in Hollywood, Calif. Simmons is standing in for her countryman, Alec Guiness, who is in England, at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. Guinness won the Oscar for " best actor of the year" for his role in "The Bridge on the River Kwai".(AP Photo)

Oscar-winner Marlon Brando poses with his statuette at the 27th Annual Academy Awards at Pantages Theater in Hollywood, Ca. on March 30, 1955. Brando won best actor of the year for his portrayal in "On the Waterfront." (AP Photo)

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Actress Audrey Hepburn poses with her Oscar statuette at the annual Academy Awards presentations in New York, on March 24, 1954. Hepburn was awarded best actress for her only first movie starring role, the portrayal of a free-spirited Princess in the motion picture "Roman Holiday." (AP Photo)

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Cecil B. De Mille poses in Los Angeles on March 19, 1953 at the 25th annual Academy Awards. He holds his Oscar for best picture, "The Greatest Show on Earth," and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for consistently high production achievement. The 1953 Academy Awards were the first televised awards ceremony. (AP Photo/stf)

John Wayne shows the gold statuettes he accepted for Gary Cooper and John Ford to two former Academy Award winners, Olivia De Havilland and Janet Gaynor after the ceremony in Hollywood March 19, 1953. Cooper won his Oscar as best actor, in "High Noon." and Ford as best director. Neither was in town for the presentations. Miss Gaynor was handed the first Oscar ever presented to an actress 25 years ago. (AP Photo)

Oscar nominees Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson cross their fingers as they wait for news from Hollywood, where the Academy Awards are held, backstage at the Fulton Theater in New York City on March 29, 1951. Swanson is nominated for best actress for her role in "Sunset Boulevard." Ferrer is nominated for best actor for his role in "Cyrano de Bergerac," and won the award. Swanson and Ferrer are starring in the Broadway play "Twentieth Century," directed by Ferrer. (AP Photo)

Oscar winners and presenters pose backstage at the 1951 Academy Awards held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., March 20, 1952. From left to right are, Bette Davis, who accepted Kim Hunter's Oscar for best supporting actress in "A Streetcar Named Desire"; George Sanders, presenter; Karl Malden, named best supporting actor in "A Streetcar Named Desire"; Greer Garson, who accepted Vivien Leigh's best actresss award for "A Streetcar Named Desire"; Humphrey Bogart, best actor for "The African Queen"; and presenter Ronald Colman. (AP Photo)

Governor Earl Warren, of California, congratulates film star Olivia De Havilland on her winning her second Oscar. They met in Romanoff's in Beverly Hills after the Academy Awards presentations on March 23, 1950 in Beverly Hills. Miss DeHavillland won her second statuette for her performance in "The Heiress." She won her first one in 1946 for "To Each His Own." (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

Winners of the top award in the Academy Oscar presentation make a happy group on March 23, 1950 in Hollywood. Left to right are: Broderick Crawford, best actor; Olivia De Havilland, best actress; Mercedes McCambridge, best supporting actress; and Dean Jagger, best supporting actor. (AP Photo)

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As the first father-son team to win the Academy Awards in the same year, John Huston, left, and Walter Huston pose with their Oscars at the annual Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood, on March 24, 1949. John Huston won best screenplay and best director for the motion picture "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"; father Walter's performance as Howard in the same movie earned him the Oscar for best supporting actor. (AP Photo)

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Jean Hersholt, President of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, congratulates James Baskett, center, second African American to win an Oscar, for his special award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in the 1946 Disney feature film "Song of the South" on March 20, 1948 in Los Angeles, Calif.. Looking on is Ingrid Bergman, who made presentation to Baskett. (AP Photo)

At a crowded table at Ciro's, Frank Sinatra steals a glance at his Oscar March 11, 1946, which he won for his performance in the picture "The House I Live In". His wife Nancy looks on at left. (AP Photo)

Actor Jimmy Cagney, left, is congratulated by Gary Cooper after receiving the Oscar statuette at the 1942 Academy Awards banquet at Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., March 4, 1943. Cagney is named best actor of the year for his role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," (AP Photo/John T. Burns)

British actress Vivien Leigh, holding her Oscar, which she won for Best Actress for her role in the film "Gone With The Wind", talks to American film producer David O. Selznick, at the banquet of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 29, 1940. Selznick also won a special award for the same film. (AP Photo)

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Judy Garland receives a kiss from Mickey Rooney as she is given a special award Oscar for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past years at the 1939 Academy Awards presented at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca., Feb. 29, 1940. (AP Photo)

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Victor Saville, producer of the film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," accepts the Oscar on behalf of Robert Donat from Spencer Tracy, left, at the 1939 Academy Awards held at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, in Los Angeles, Ca., Feb. 29, 1940. Donat won best actor for his performance in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips." (AP Photo)

Hattie McDaniel, left, was given the Motion Picture Academy award for the best performance of an actress in a supporting role in 1939 for her work as "Mammy" in the film version of "Gone With the Wind" on Feb. 29, 1940 in Los Angeles, Calif. The presentation of the award was given by actress Fay Bainter, right. (AP Photo)

British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, right, presents the Oscar to Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy, left, at the 1938 Annual Academy Awards at the Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., Feb. 23, 1939. Davis, named best actress for her role in "Jezebel," and Tracy, named best actor for his role in "Boys Town," win an Oscar for their second consecutive year. (AP Photo)

Clark Gable shows his Oscar for "It Happened One Night" to Lionel Barrymore, far left, presented at the 1934 Academy Awards banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., Feb. 27, 1935. Humorist Irving S. Cobb, who presented the award, is at right. The man at far right is not identified. (AP Photo)

Frank Capra poses with his special Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Ca., in 1934. Capra was honored with the award for best direction for his movie "It Happened One Night." (AP Photo)

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Actress Norma Shearer poses with her Oscar at the Academy Awards banquet in the Fiesta Room, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., Nov. 5, 1930. Shearer won for the best performance given by an actress for the movie "The Divorce." (AP Photo)